Word: barium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pope's housekeeper, Sister Pasqualina, handed him a "barium breakfast"-a glass of gritty, ill-tasting barium sulfate which he swallowed slowly with unconcealed dislike. The Pope remained standing as the barium salt (opaque to X-rays) moved down his gullet, and the doctors made exposures to show its entrance into his recently inflamed stomach. Then the Pope lay down on the table and the X-ray camera shot more pictures showing the barium's slow course through the stomach and into the upper intestinal tract...
...doubly sure, the doctors insisted on more X-rays late in the afternoon, when the barium had traveled to the lower intestine. But they found nothing more-certainly no sign of the malignancy they had feared. Then the question was what to do about the hernia. Operate soon to remove the hernia, advised the Pope's new doctors, Gastroenterologist Antonio Gasbarrini and Surgeon Raffaele Paolucci di Valmaggiore. No, said Chief Papal Physician Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi, the Pope is too old (nearing 79) and not strong enough, and he would be too upset by the inability to carry...
...fluorescent screens themselves will be improved. Brightened up by television techniques, they may permit the use of ordinary cameras rather than the bulky astronomer's telescope. But whatever other improvements are made in abdominal X-ray cameras, the patient will still face the unpleasant task of downing a barium highball before he poses for a picture...
...child with ulcers is much like an adult with ulcers: the brighter-than-average, tense type, who bottles up his emotions. (Dr. Girdany's patients did not kick and scream the way many kids would if offered a "barium breakfast," but suffered in silence.) Such children may carry their ulcer troubles into adult life -so that tense little tykes grow into big, tense tycoons...
...current Electrical Engineering, J. R. Anderson of Bell Telephone Laboratories tells about a new electronic device which may solve the memory problem. Its new feature is a thin slice of crystalline barium titanate. This peculiar stuff is "ferroelectric": i.e., if it is placed between two metal contacts, a considerable amount of electrical energy can be made to flow into the crystal and stay there. There is room for 2,500 dots of energy on a one-inch square of crystal...